Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
So load up your ship, my friends! Fill it with the Name, the finest cargo there is, and sail. Trade well and honestly, and you'll come sailing home again with everything you hoped to gain.
The city sits by water, and the verse sends us to sea: vakhar naam lad khep chalaavahu — load the merchandise of the Name and set your cargo sailing. Then the tender promise: lai laahaa gurmukh ghar aavhu — earn your profit and return to your own home. The journey of a whole life is pictured as a trading voyage that ends not in exile but in homecoming. The 'profit' isn't taken from anyone; it's the fullness you built by carrying the right cargo. And the destination is ghar — home — the deepest word for arrival: not somewhere new and strange, but the place you always belonged, reached at last.
What is worth 'carrying' through your whole life so you arrive home full?
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